[Recycled from 8 February 2005]
Joe: Hi, Charlie, haven't seen you since before the election.
Charlie: Well, I've been busy.
Joe: Not preparing legal challenges to Measure 36, I hope?
Charlie: I've done a little work on those, but mostly just family stuff.
Joe: Come on, give it up. You and Bob, you have your . . .
Charlie: Marriage, Joe, we have a marriage. You may not recognize it --
Joe: And neither does the government, and it never will. Get used to it.
Charlie: Joe, we aren't going to give up, and you had better get used to that.
Joe: Look, I like you as an individual, but you'ver got to face facts: I'm a member of a movement, a big one, and collectively . . . we, collectively, hate you, collectively. Sorry to be so blunt about it.
Charlie: No, I find it refreshing. But you're still not going to win this one.
Joe: We will. Because we hate you more than you hate us.
Charlie: I won't deny that we, collectively, hate you, collectively. That's just human nature when someone attacks you. But you're missing something important.
Joe: Yeah?
Charlie: You don't hate us more than we love our families. That's why when you tire and falter, we will keep right on going, and win.
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